��Steve, I know you don��t understand, but yes, God knows about that.��

McCollum believed in military discipline and respect for authority. Jobs didn��t. His aversion to authority was something he no longer tried to hide, and he affected an attitude that combined wiry and weird intensity with

aloof rebelliousness. McCollum later said, ��He was usually off in a corner doing something on his own and really didn��t want to have much of anything to do with either me or the rest of the class.�� He never trusted Jobs with a key to the stockroom.

One day Jobs needed a part that was not available, so he made a collect call to the manufacturer, Burroughs in Detroit, and said he was designing a new product and wanted to test out the part. It arrived by air freight a few days later. When

McCollum asked how he had gotten it, Jobs described��with defiant pride��the collect call and the tale he had told. ��I was furious,�� McCollum said. ��That was not the way I wanted my students to behave.�� Jobs��s response was, ��I don��t have the money for the phone call.

There was, however, something missing in their lives. They wanted children, but Clara had suffered an ectopic pregnancy, in which the fertilized egg was implanted in a fallopian tube rather than the uterus, and she had been unable to have

garage, often with Steve tagging along. ��I figured I could get him nailed down with a little mechanical ability, but he really wasn��t interested in getting his hands dirty,�� Paul later recalled. ��He never really cared too much about mechanical things.��She reciprocated by getting him a hobby kit for grinding a lens and making a camera. ��I learned more from her than any other teacher, and if it hadn��t been for her

a prominent Syrian family. His father owned oil refineries and multiple other businesses, with large holdings in Damascus and Homs, and at one point pretty much controlled the price of wheat in the region. His mother, he later said, was a ��traditional Muslim woman�� who was a

��conservative, obedient housewife.�� Like the Schieble family, the Jandalis put a premium on education. Abdulfattah was sent to a Jesuit boarding school, even though he was Muslim, and he got an undergraduate degree at the American University in Beirut before entering the University of Wisconsin to pursue